Many "I don't remember" but he had no hesitations on one thing: "on June 1st 2001 I didn't see Serena Mollicone in the Arce police station".
There is a battle of testimonies in the appeal process, underway in Rome before the judges of the assizes, for the death of the 19-year-old killed 23 years ago in the town of Frusinate.
The judges listened to a key witness: Annarita Torriero who had a relationship with the ex-brigadier Santino Tuzi who later committed suicide in 2008.
The woman denied what was claimed in the hearing on 22 March by one of her neighbors, Sonia Da Fonseca, according to which Torriero gave him reported having seen the young woman in the barracks on the day of her disappearance.
"It is absolutely false - he explained - that that day he saw Serena in the Arce police station. I have never said something like that and he claims he will be sued for slander".
Torriero also said that she knew Mollicone because her father was her daughter's teacher.
"Sometimes I met her in the barracks area but never inside: I saw her other times going in and out of the barracks gate together with other friends but that particular day I didn't go there to bring things to my ex-boyfriend".
And again: "I often saw Serena on the Arce course with other boys and I wondered how a good girl like that could stay in that company with Marshal Mottola's son. Da Fonseca, however, was angry with me for other things and said a bag of lies."
In the first degree trial, in July 2022, the Cassino court dropped the charges for the five defendants: the Carabinieri marshal Franco Mottola, his wife Annamaria and his son Marco, accused of murder, for the lieutenant Vincenzo Quatrale, who was contested for the competition in murder and for the arrested person Francesco Suprano, accused of aiding and abetting.
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